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Mazda USA is inviting people to send in details of their favourite American drives, with a prize for the best one. A similar competition ran in Top Gear magazine last year and they tested the drives in an MX5.

Donn R Wright, the MX5 driver in the film, travelled 1,300 miles from his home in Green Bay Wisconsin to the Enchanted Circle, one of the most beautiful drives in the world, amongst the Sangre de Cristo mountains in northern New Mexico.

Paul Simon loved the vast wilderness of these mountains which border Colorado and he sang about their dramatic beauty in “Hearts & Bones”, one of his most romantic songs: